In François Ozon’s Swimming Pool, Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah, a successful mystery author who’s stuck in her life. It’s not that she has writer’s block – she has an emotional
In Blue Car, Agnes Bruckner plays Meg, a sensitive young high school girl who seems to excel in writing. And while the words on her page are calm, the world
There’s a famous little book called Hollywood Babylon, filled with pictures and stories about the Silent and Golden Age stars and their scandals. Written by cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, it
Children Underground is one of the more depressing documentaries that you’ll ever see. When dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu banned contraception in the mid-sixties (in order to raise some kind of work
You either like Nick Broomfield or you don’t. Like Michael Moore, he puts himself front and center in the documentary, wandering into frame and asking questions with a painful naïveté.
Bad Boys II finds Mike and Marcus returning as the two most destructive cops in the history of policedom. They’re trying to bust an international drug ring making its way
Yukio Mishima was a complicated and complex man, so a movie about his life would be equally interesting and complex. In the occupational sense, Mishima was a prolific writer who
It’s apt that Peter Jackson set a blurb upon the advertising of the film. Jackson founded his now superstar film career upon exactly this kind of movie – funny, bloody